Called the “reigning proponent of cut and paste” by critic J. Hoberman of the Village Voice, master collagist Lewis Klahr has been making films since 1977. He is known for his uniquely idiosyncratic experimental films and cutout animations which have been screened extensively in the United States and Europe. Klahr's work is in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art and has been included in the Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Musuem of American Art (1991 & 1995). His epic cutout animation The Pharaoh's Belt received a special citation for experimental work from the National Society of Film Critics in 1994. Lulu was commissioned in 1996 by Copenhagen's Gronnegards Theater for The Rotterdam Film festival commissioned Klahr to create Two Minutes to Zero for a series of 10 one minute films produced for the 2004 festival. Klahr premiered two new series at the 2004 Toronto and New York Film Festivals. Klahr has received extensive funding including a 1992 Guggenheim Fellowship. Commercially, he has created special effects and animation for television show openings, music videos, commercials, and a documentary. He created cutout animation for director Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000). Since moving to Los Angeles in 1999, he has become involved with screenwriting and co-re-wrote The Mothman Prophecies for director Mark Pellington. The Lakeshore Entertainment film starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney was released in February 2002.